Executive Employment Law: Protecting Executives, Entrepreneurs and Employees by Jotham S. Stein, provides practitioners and business executives with a fundamental knowledge of executive employment-related negotiations and the laws governing executive employment. He discusses essential strategies for negotiating employment contracts, separation (termination) agreements, non-compete agreements, and founder's stock contracts. It's an ideal guide for executives, their counsel, H.R. representatives, and any other interested party. The 2014 Edition -- now published in a convenient softcover -- has been updated to include 1) a new section on protecting executive's and entrepreneur's unvested stock options and unvested restricted stock, 2) Dodd-Frank's effects on executive employment law, and 3) many new cases and research that have been reported since the first edition.

The corporate lawyer who represents high ranking, and sometimes high profile, executives, requires a full understanding of the dynamics of executive compensation negotiations and the types of contracts executives enter into. The same can be said of in-house counsel responsible for advising their employer or compensation committee on executive hiring, retention or termination matters. There are myriad issues beyond the requirements of compensation reporting to consider, from negotiating the employment relationship to understanding compensation packages, to considering executive's mid-employment requests, to terminating the employment relationship, whether due to performance or merger.

Features

• Provides practitioners and business people with an understanding of key dynamics in the executive negotiation process
• Written by a practitioner with extensive executive employment law experience
• Is an easy-to-navigate, strategic tool for practitioners in need of either quick overviews or comprehensive explanations of the most essential areas of executive employment law

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2 THE NEGOTIATING PLAYING FIELD
CHAPTER 3 THE PLAYERS
CHAPTER 4 A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DOCUMENTS
CHAPTER 5 THE EXECUTIVE BECOMES A CLIENT- -THE ATTORNEY BEGINS TO ADVISE
CHAPTER 6 GENERAL NEGOTIATION CONSIDERATIONS FOR EXECUTIVES
CHAPTER 7 PRE-EMPLOYMENT: NEGOTIATING THE EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT AND RELATED AGREEMENTS
CHAPTER 8 DURING (AND SOMETIMES BEFORE) THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP
CHAPTER 9 TERMINATION OF THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP
CHAPTER 10 THE EXECUTIVE' ABILITY TO COMPETE AGAINST HIS FORMER EMPLOYER- -A BRIEF OVERVIEW
CHAPTER 11 A BRIEF WORD ON INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AFFECTING THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP
APPENDIX A. FOR EXECUTIVES AND ENTREPRENEURS: HOW TO FIND A LAWYER WITH EXPERIENCE REPRESENTING CLIENTS LIKE YOU

Stein, Jotham

Jotham S. Stein has represented hundreds of executives, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and companies in a wide variety of business and employment negotiations. He has negotiated (or counseled clients during the negotiation of) numerous employment and founder-related agreements, including executive employment contracts, stock option agreements, change of control agreements, management carve out agreements, and severance agreements. Mr. Stein also offers prospective employees, managers, shareholders and corporate executives advice on ways to best protect themselves, and the risks of choosing not to do so, before employment begins, during the employment relationship and/or while a transaction is taking place.

In addition to his extensive executive employment experience, Mr. Stein has been counsel in complex multi-million dollar litigation matters and in smaller individual and business cases. Mr. Stein has represented clients in state and federal courts, before state and federal agencies and in arbitration. He has also served as part-time General Counsel of a high-technology Silicon Valley company.

Mr. Stein is a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford Law School. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, in Palo Alto, California as an associate. He has also served as a Lecturer/Instructor in Legal Research and Writing at U.C. Berkeley School of Law. Mr. Stein now practices at the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C., with offices in Palo Alto, California and Chicago, Illinois.